“It's terrible now. I don't know, and you know, I've been texting with my former colleagues at CNN and they're scared. And one colleague -- former colleague said this is what happens when the president calls you the enemy of the people,” she argued.

“That's right,” Behar retorted.

Hostin continued raving against Trump, claiming CNN was now a “target:”

“And I thought my gosh, the tone is coming from the top and now CNN has become the target. Journalists that are simply trying to do their jobs!” she ranted.

Right-leaning co-hosts Abby Huntsman and Meghan McCain both urged caution, with Huntsman saying, “We still don't know anything yet about where this is coming from.” But Hostin had already made up her mind that this threat came from a Trump supporter who got their marching orders from Trump and Fox News:

“Well, why did CNN get the bomb?” Hostin asked her conservative co-hosts. Suggesting further that this was a conservative’s fault, she gushed, “Fox News hasn't gotten a bomb!”

Behar agreed. “You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes!” she quipped.

Other Democrats similarly wasted no time exploiting the news to try to boost their party in the midterms:

Senior comms guy for Florida Democratic Party is taking to blaming Rep. Ron DeSantis for the mail package incidents, citing an email in which he said Hillary Clinton was the "kiss of death" for Democratic campaigns. You really can't make this stuff up...https://t.co/otRScUuDG8pic.twitter.com/9HZduL7LNk

NBC News's Ben Collins suggested the bomb plot was likely inspired by "talk radio and Fox News" rather than "fringe websites like 4chan and Qanon-adjacent communities on Reddit and Facebook."

There will be a rush to pin these mailbombs on extremist talking points from fringe websites like 4chan and Qanon-adjacent communities on Reddit and Facebook, but Soros, Obama and the Clintons have been viewed as the root of all evil on talk radio and Fox News for over a decade.